You raise a good point, and I had read that Vichy made ammo for Germany.. Does anyone have any idea how much ammo was made??? The Vichy administration had no control over the French military factories, They were under Nazi administration. At least three ammunition manufacturer were tasked with prod...

The thing that always got me was the resupply of this French ammo to those german units, The Germans captured like 60 days of combat ammo for the guns. But from everything I have read, when the ammo was gone, there was no allowance to make more.. And the Germans figured those units would be destroy...

My only MAS 36 is an "M Series" 1946 which looks to have been thru a rebuild. PPU sell the 7.5 french ammo. Fun to shoot...but NO SAFETY! Second from right in pic No need for a safety on a bolt rifle. How many times has anyone ever used the safety on a Mauser or Mosin Sent from my XT1585 using Tapa...

The chamber recess is not altered by the reaming to 45 ACP case dimensions, and an orignal round would load and be held by its rim as originally.
Negative point is the side of the case would not be supported by the chamber wall and if fired would suffer from excessive expansion and poor accuracy.

The sharpshooter rifles FRF1 and F2 were built on a stronger receiver than the Mas 36, and there was no compatible components. The scope for thes rifles was also different from the one used on the FSA with finer adjustment clicks and a three claws top mount. IT is feasible to fit an APX L 806 side m...

Guys, we are discussing military rifles and how they were handled by seasoned soldiers on the frontline where one extra cartridge meant a lot! The military ammunitions in 7,5x54 had a very strong primer system to work safely in machineguns (LMG 24-29, MAC 31) and FSA. I am not advocating doing it no...

Depending on the situation, need for instant fire or not, the bolt could be closed on an empty chamber with the firing pin released, or on loaded chamber with still the firing pin released in which case only a flick of the handle was needed to arm the firing pin.

The standard Mas 36 was never officially scoped, However fitting a male dovetail to the left side of the receiver of an accurate Mas 36 to pair it with an APX L 806 scope was easy task for an armorer and a good stopgap if there was no accurate FSA to use with an available scope.

RWS is German, If the name doesn't ring a bell as is, the full name won't either (Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstoff-Fabriken),they may not be distributed in the USA, they are part of the RUAG group with Rotweill. 7,65 long steel cases don't stand well to reloading, they split at the 2nd or 3rd shot...